People were very happy to know they could give half points to
me. ;-) Simms changed his score after the comment of TC that
he was not scoring the book against other PKD books, but the
rest of the crap we usually read, and after learning that John
gave it a 9. John's reasons for a 9 were that the book
perfectly captures the paranoia lived in USA in the 50's, and
it wasn't a 10 for the dismal ending. Nobody liked the ending
much.

To me the book was a bit disappointing because I expected
more of the usual craziness Dick puts in his books: talking
fungi, aliens, spaceships, etc.